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[MHELHEFNY]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jaroslav Hajek" <highegg at gmail.com>
To: "MHELHEFNY" <mhelhefny at gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael Goffioul" <michael.goffioul at gmail.com>; <bug at octave.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: about latest versions


On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 4:46 PM, MHELHEFNY <mhelhefny at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Michael !!
>
> As you mentioned that both VC++/3.0.3/SSE2 and MinGW/3.0.2/SSE2 on your
> computer
> gave , the same performance of about 1350 MFLOPS , What astonishes me is
> that MinGw/3.0.2
> on my computer gives a performance of 3600 MFLOPS which is more than 2.5
> times more than
> that you have mentioned and which is also 5 times more than that of
> Matlab (ver 6.5) which on my machine gave 660 MFLOPS i.e. 1/5 of
> MinGw/3.0.2 .
> It is also astonishing that Tatsuro's computer gave even more performance
> :-
> mingw(gcc-4.3.2-dw2-TDM) MFLOPS = 4830.2 .
> May ,I dare to ask you , tatsuro and others what is more important in a
> mathematical software than performance?.

Accuracy. Reliability. Ease of use. Freedom to study & modify. Pick
yourself - it really depends. Sometimes performance is the most
important, but by far not always.

cheers
-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz


You are absolutly right
regards